“It’s funny how fast it goes over here. I mean, it’s my first time I’ve seen all that how the trades at the end go fast and everything. I don’t know what to say. It’s special how fast it goes over here.”

“I have to say over here (in Calgary) I had a great time. It’s a great organization. Great fans. Great city. They gave me the opportunity to make my first step into the NHL so I’m really thankful for that. On the other hand, I’m really excited to go to Colorado, a great team and probably a great city, great hockey town too, and a really famous coach when I was a child in Switzerland, he was one of the biggest. I’m excited and happy.”

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.

Chambers covers college and professional hockey for The Denver Post. He has written for the Post since 1994, after dumping his first 9-to-5 office job a couple years out of college. He primarily follows the University of Denver hockey team and helps cover the Avalanche.